Rustum Pasha Quotes & Sayings

Service is a sacred strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the man who designed this should have committed suicide. A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never allowed it to be erected. He should not want to exist. But he will let it be built, so that women will hang out diapers on his terraces, so that men will spit on his stairways and draw dirty pictures on his walls. He's given it to them and he's made it part of them, part of everything. He shouldn't have offered it for men like you to look at. For men like you to talk about. He's defiled his own work by the first word you'll utter about it. He's made himself worse than you are. You'll be committing only a mean little indecency, but he's committed a sacrilege. A man who knows what he must have known to produce this should not have been able to remain alive. — Ayn Rand

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. — Kanye West

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? — Alexei Navalny

There are a lot of dead carcasses on the road, and the vultures are out sniffing. This is the cycle of Wall Street. When bubbles crash, you get the value guys who come in and say, 'This thing is cheap. — Andy Kessler

Do I dare to hope? Damn it. Yes, I do. — E.L. James

You can't create experience, you undergo it. — Albert Camus

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are. — Atticus Shaffer

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation. — Alfred Korzybski

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you. — Rick Warren

The more I see God in these relationships with my children, the more I've become aware of how easily we can wall God's presence off from very important areas of our lives. — Ed Cyzewski

People talk about Frank [Sinatra] all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. — Bob Dylan

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. — Leigh Hunt

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls. — J.R. Rim